Architecture and Desing
from Lima/Peru & Tijuana/Mexico

Excercises of growth without design nevertheless results in organizational structures through processes of urban sedimentation in time—settlement, coagulation, and consolidation, all common patterns in “informal” housing conditions generated by poverty in many parts of Latin America. In my view, such patterns occur equally in housing, commerce, and transport, creating a network of microurbanisms that linked together makeup the “informal” city. A city of microurbanisms is constructed of units that reduce down, from near chaotic complexity, to the scale of one single individual. A person can carry his home, business and transport on the body; several individuals create micro-organizations that, outside of legal structures, consolidate over time into complex systems creating the new urban matter of physical and social infrastructure.

Project: SlowTrans Anyang (Korea) - For Anyang Public Art Project 2010 (APAP2010)

SlowTrans Anyang is APAP’s bicycle rental system; it is a micro-transportation system for the event and the city. It will consist of 15 bicycles which are marked by a strong and recognizable identity, and will also to market APAP through out the town. The bicycles will mutate with specific additions to their structure—plug-in devices to personalize the mobile unit towards a specific new function: something to carry, to move, to store, to communicate, to transport, to engage. SlowTrans Anyang includes 6 newly designed or modified mobile plug-in devices: Mobile Bench, Mobile Table, Mobile Jeong-Jah, Cargo, Child Toy-Capsule, and Love Chair. Each with its own particular use, these devices are designed to have multiple and even hybrid programming, inviting that which is usually static to move, transplanting interior furniture into the exterior, and also encouraging different forms of mobile social interaction.

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